Tiger Woods’ sizzling date with a hotcakes waitress was the reason he agreed to pose for a rare cover shoot for Men’s Fitness magazine, sources said yesterday.

Woods was “getting busy” with Perkins eatery waitress/manager Mindy Lawton in his SUV — and reportedly drove up to her trailer park — in the spring of 2007 when they were photographed by a lensman from the National Enquirer, sources said.

As The Post first reported last week, an embarrassed Team Tiger quickly agreed to let the golf great be the featured cover art for another America Media publication, Men’s Fitness, to keep the story from getting out.

It was the last Mindy saw of Tiger, but the busty flapjack server exacted her own revenge — spilling her guts to the British newspaper News of the World about her fling with the world’s greatest golfer.

“All Tiger cared about was getting me into bed,” she told the tab. “Tiger just used me as his sex toy.”